On this day: April 19

The American Revolutionary War breaks out, the Soviet Union launches the first space station, the Waco siege ends in a deadly blaze, and homegrown terrorists strike Oklahoma City, all on this day.

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1770: Marie Antoinette, 14, marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding in the Church of the Augustine Friars in Vienna. Her brother Ferdinand stood in as the bridegroom.

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